Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S BOKS. --The Washington Post Book World (front page review)

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.

Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier--space. In Pale Blue Dot Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.

TAKES READERS FAR BEYOND Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity's future in the stars. --Chicago Tribune

Introductory music from the original score for COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey composed by Alan Silvestri, used with permission from Cosmos Studios, Inc. and Chappers Music. All rights reserved. Special thanks to Fuzzy Planets, Inc.

ANN DRUYAN is a well-known writer and producer who collaborated with her late husband, Carl Sagan, on a number of best-selling books. She was also the artistic director of the Voyager Golden Record, which was launched into space 40 years ago. Druyan continues to collaborate with NASA and the Planetary Society as an interpreter of major scientific breakthroughs. She is a laureate of the International Humanist Academy and served as Secretary of the Federation of American Scientists. She just won an Emmy and a Peabody Award for her work on the first season of National Geographic's Cosmos, for which she conceptualized and wrote.